Alice Springs will soon be equipped with fibre optic cables that will deliver fast broadband to all its residents. An estimated 9,000 homes and businesses in Alice Springs will begin to get connected to the network, most of which will be via fixed line connections, as construction to lay cables progresses from now until June… View Article
The NBN will be expanding to another 25,000 premises across the Northern Territory. Construction work has just begun to connect the areas of Berimah, Palmerston, Nightcliff, Nhulunbuy, Tennant Creek, Katherine, and Alice Springs to the network. Justin Jarvis, NBN Spokesperson, said the NBN fixed wireless service was already available to some 5,000 premises in Darwin,… View Article
In the next 18 months, it is estimated that 16,000 households in Riverland and Murraylands in South Australia will be connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN). Work begins this month as NBN Co aims to connect Renmark, Berri, Loxton, and other towns to fixed fibre lines. Numerous smaller towns all over the region are… View Article
A National Broadband Network Company spokesperson said that it will take a lot of time to bring Macarthur’s packets of patchy internet up to global standards. Residents of Mount Annan, who wrote to the Advertiser regarding their suburb’s slow internet speed, are still waiting for NBN Co to do something about it. Emma Harris, Mt…. View Article
Although there were concerns that NBN Co’s move to take Telstra’s and Optus’ HFC (Hybrid Fibre-Coxial) cable netwoks would result in slower speeds, especially when it comes to uploads, Arris’ (US telco equipment manufacturing company) Chief Technology Officer in the Asia Pacific, Joshua Eum, remains confident. On Tuesday, Eum said at the CommsDay NBN Rebooted… View Article
By June 2016, another 1.9 million homes and businesses will have access to fast broadband. Today, it was announced by NBN Co that their new national construction plan involves more than 400 cities, suburbs, and towns all set to get the NBN. This marks a vital step in the company’s goal of reaching eight million… View Article
Beginning May 6 of next year, Mandurah and Meadow Springs, that have 2,900 premises with access to the National Broadband Network, will face landline service disconnection. Services from here on out will be replaced by those over the NBN as part of the fixed line infrastructure national upgrade in Australia. Existing landline and Internet services… View Article
Construction is set to connect another 2700 homes and business in Launceston to the NBN network via FTTP (Fibre-To-The-Premises). The NBN Co’s plan for rollout includes parts of Kings Meadows, Prospect Summerhill and South Launceston. Using alternate NBN technologies, construction may also start in Swansea and Lilydale so that they may also be connected. Andrew… View Article
At a Senate Estimates hearing today, an NBN Co executive said that government-owned company is willing to install its equipment in apartment block basements, also known as multi-dwelling units (MDUs) regardless of the presence of infrastructure from its rival. “We would expect at some point we would enter into an MDU that may have a… View Article
